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...Since King Ferdinand's career passed chiefly among persons now dead, and amid situations now altered or vanished, the briefest summary suffices. His late uncle, Carol von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the first King of Rumania, having achieved that rank from mere princehood through the masterful intrigue of his great minister, the late Jon Bratiano (father of the present Dictator). Prince Ferdinand succeeded his childless uncle as King in October, 1914. He had married, in 1893, a granddaughter of British Queen Victoria, the Princess Marie of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (later Windsor). During the War, King Ferdinand & Queen Marie saw their...
Professor Copeland's two audiences--those who enjoy his personal acquaintance and that large and increasing number which knows him only by reputation and through the delights of the recent Copeland Reader--will join in wishing him the briefest of absences from Hollis Hall. A sabbatical year, is soon to deprive the college of one of the few men whose mere personality has bequeathed on him the honor of being "an institution." Therefore any of his further withdrawals from the Yard are to be watched with jealous scrupulation...
...funeral arrangements were made before his family had arrived. His headstone, marked "J.C.C.," stood with those of his wives and his daughter. He left instructions that there be no music at his funeral and that an Episcopal service be read, the briefest possible...
...dealer; the English by Ambrose McEvoy and Augustus E. John; the French by Camille Mauclair, critic. At the time of the death of her husband, the late Edward H. Harriman, Mrs. Harriman was called "the richest and most important business woman in the world. In one of the briefest wills ever filed, he made her sole executrix of $140,000,000. None of the five Harriman children received a penny. Mrs. Harriman was careful in the education of the children. She had them taught to ride as soon as they could toddle, and never let them understand, until they reached...
...radio microphone was brought before him, for the speech was to be very public indeed. The saloon hushed. Putting his lips close to the instrument, Thomas Alva Edison delivered himself of one of the briefest addresses in history; an address known by heart by all kinds and conditions of men, the wide world over; an address which Mr. Edison helped to compose half a century ago out of a rough draft from the brain of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. With blue eye a-twinkle, said Mr. Edison: "Hello...